February 16 2000 RussCon Report
16 of us, including newcomers BobR and Jennifer.
February 14 I had jury duty impanelment at 9am. I hope your Valentine's Day was more fun!
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Game Results:
Brawl 2 Daniel 1 William -1 MoleHill 2 Alfred 1 JeffF -1 BuriedTreasure 4 Daniel 3 William 1 Marty -1 RussW -3 Torres 4 JeffF 3 Bob 1 Alfred -1 Marty -3 ZirkusFlohcati 3 WendyWhe 2 JonathanC 0 Jennifer -2 Hare&Tortoise 3 Bob 2 JonathanC 0 WendyWhe -2 Boggle 4 JeffF 3 Marty 1 Alfred -1 Jennifer -3 RoboRally 5 JP 4 Daniel 2 Clayton 0 Jay -2 BobR -4 WhatWereYouThinking 5 JeffF 1 Alfred 1 WendyWhe 1 William 1 Jennifer -4 HookOrCrook 5 Fred 4 Steve 2 RussW 0 Daniel -2 Jay -4 Bluff 4 William 3 Alfred 1 JeffF -1 WendyWhe -3 Andromeda 5 JonathanC 4 Marty 1 JP 1 BobR -2 Bob -4 BuriedTreasure 4 Bob 3 Marty 1 BobR -1 JP -3 SpaceBeans 6 RussW 5 William 3 Steve 1 Daniel -1 Jay -3 Fred -5 Bluff 4 Daniel 3 RussW 1 William -1 Steve -3 Bluff 5 Daniel 4 RussW 2 JP 0 Steve -2 William -4
Ahoy Captain! In Buried Treasure, the cards you've taken stay with you into the next rounds! We were doing that wrong before. Arrr! Make JeffF walk the plank, the scurvy knave! It makes a huge difference -- e.g., the distinction between a steal 3 & a steal 4 card actually becomes meaningful after the first round!
Congrats to Fred for winning his first game of Hook or Crook versus grizzled art veterans.
I think many of us would agree that there are few gaming pleasures to compare with eliminating William first in Bluff.
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Evening's Soundtrack:
Laurie Anderson, Mister Heartbreak
Wild at Heart, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Breeders, Last Splash
My Bloody Valentine, Isn't Anything
Shakespear's Sister, Sacred Heart
Happy Valentine's Day.
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Rank ratings: 0.5000 JonathanC (3 games played) 0.4167 Daniel (7) 0.3571 JeffF (5) 0.2632 RussW (5) 0.1667 Bob (4) 0.1333 JP (4) 0.0870 William (7) 0.0714 Alfred (5) 0.0000 Clayton (1) -0.0625 Marty (5) -0.1111 Fred (2) -0.1250 Steve (4) -0.1818 WendyWhe (4) -0.6364 BobR (3) -0.6923 Jay (3) -1.0000 Jennifer (3) New Win ratings: 0.3571 JeffF (5) 0.3333 Daniel (7) 0.3333 Fred (2) 0.2500 JonathanC (3) 0.2500 Bob (4) 0.0909 WendyWhe (4) 0.0667 JP (4) 0.0526 RussW (5) -0.0435 William (7) -0.0714 Alfred (5) -0.2308 Jay (3) -0.2500 Clayton (1) -0.2500 Steve (4) -0.2727 BobR (3) -0.3125 Marty (5) -0.6667 Jennifer (3)
Sea Biscuit, Daniel, and JeffF are Co-Devils. Fred, Bob, and I are Co-Vice-Devils. William and Daniel share the Dedicated Award. Jennifer is the Generous Angel.
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Links:
A very nice wacky whimsical webzine with all sorts of fun stuff:
http://www.wunderland.com
These are the folks who made Fluxx, occasionally played at RussCon. Check
out these less RussConlike but interesting "after dinner" style games (e.g.
Tombstone, ScarfBarf, CheezWiz):
http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Ginohn/games/#Other
A real time online persistent fantasy wargame that's free. I've not played
it:
http://samugames.com/artifact/
Furious George and the cross-country crime spree:
http://www.snowplow.org/cgi-bin/george.pl
RussCon's very own Jeffles appears in High scores through 1/28/00:
4150 Jeffles 46 second-degree murder Wed Jan 26 13:06:54 2000
Another online comic strip in the tech geek humor vein:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/
Dame Darcy shrine, for those whose taste in comics is more outre:
http://www.drizzle.com/~dyslexia/darcy/
Home of the now-defunct Dysfunctional Family Circus:
http://www.spinnwebe.com/dfc/
Greco-Roman, Indian, and other Ancient Erotic Art:
http://www.apollonius.net/erotica.html
A ridiculously gross & silly urban legend, and cogent debunking of it.
Not for the squeamish.
http://www.snopes.com/sex/bestial/lobster.htm
If anyone has links to interesting online trivia quiz, contest, problem-solving game show type online games (good or bad, free or not, prizes or not), please email them to me (not to the whole RussCon list). I already know about www.madtrivia.com, www.jack.com, www.uproar.com, www.riddler.com, and various trivia/Jeopardy type games at msn, yahoo, pogo, aol, compuserve, sony station.
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It's Sharkey's day!
Russ